Vermont
Law requires than any person engaged in supervised practice in Vermont toward
licensure as a psychologist register with the Board as a psychological trainee.
26 V.S.A. § 3001(11). The purpose of this requirement is to ensure that those
individuals are accountable to the Board for any unprofessional conduct and to
ensure that they comply with disclosure requirements of the rules. Because the
Board’s current Administrative Rules do not address psychological trainees, The
Board adopts this interim policy to remain in effect until the effective date of
the Board’s rules which are currently in the drafting stage.

To
dispel uncertainty for those who may have previously registered on the roster of
nonlicensed and noncertified psychotherapists, the Board adopts the following
interim policy:

The supervised practice of an
applicant for licensure as a psychologist which occurred while the applicant was
registered on the roster of non-licensed and non-certified psychotherapists will
not, because the applicant was on the roster, disqualify the supervised practice
from counting toward licensure as a psychologist.